Build a Killer Gaming Rig

We like Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285. We like it a lot. It’s currently the fastest single-GPU graphics card you can buy. Why no dual-GPU card? Simply put, we’re going to put two fast GPUs in our system, so we’re going to use two of these excellent cards in SLI.

As ET editor Loyd put forth last month in his SLI scaling article, a third GPU doesn’t really get you much. Mostly it just eats up a lot of power and space in your system. The best choice—right now—is to put two of the fastest single-GPU cards in the system, and that’s clearly the GeForce GTX 285.

We’re using a pair of these excellent cards from eVGA, sticking to the stock-speed models. There are overclocked versions out there, but you don’t earn that much of a performance boost and you really pay more. In our experience, you can overclock these “regular” models if you really want to. As you’ll see in the performance section, there’s really no need. Continued…

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